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The Ballerina Stakes is an American Grade I Thoroughbred horse race. The Grade I event is contested each year during the last week of August at Saratoga Race Course and is open to fillies and mares ages three and up. It is raced at a distance of seven furlongs on the dirt for a recently increased purse of $500000. Part of the Breeders’ Cup Challenge series the winner of the 2008 Ballerina Stakes automatically qualifies for the Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Sprint. [1]Named for Howell E.